• Portrait of a large group of artists including Maro and Anahid Ajemian, Alan Hovhaness and others, at a house party (ca.1940s)
Portrait of a large group of artists including Maro and Anahid Ajemian, Alan Hovhaness and others, at a house party (ca.1940s)
Portrait of a large group of artists including Maro and Anahid Ajemian, Alan Hovhaness and others, at a house party (ca.1940s)

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Anahid Ajemian Collection ➔ Portrait of a large group of artists including Maro and Anahid Ajemian, Alan Hovhaness and others, at a house party (ca.1940s)

Still image

Origin
Anahid Ajemian
Identifier
IM.AJE.PC.0001.014
Work Type
Photographic print
Image Class
Group Photographs
Image Series
Ajemian: Various professional portraits of Anahid and Maro
Description
A black and white portrait of a large group, including various artists in modern music and art of the time (ca. late 1940s). Top left to right: Babette Edelstein (wife of Monroe Edelstein, who took this photograph), Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Alan Hovhaness, Dr. Leon Ajemian (father to Maro and Anahid), pianist William Masselos, and two other unidentified men. In the middle row below Hovhaness are Anne Parker Wigglesworth (artist, wife of Frank), Frank Wigglesworth, Maro Ajemian, Carol Marcus Saroyan (actress, married to William Saroyan, also known as Carol Grace and later Carol Matthau), and two unidentified women, one of which may be the Ajemians' housekeeper. In the bottom row (kneeling and sitting): Yenouk Der Hagopian (artist), Siroun Erganian Ajemian (mother of Maro and Anahid), and Anahid Ajemian. The next three women sitting on the floor are Serafina Hovhaness (third wife of Alan Hovhaness), Dr. Elizabeth Gregory (Pediatrician, first woman admitted to Harvard Medical School, early champion of the music of Alan Hovhaness), Mary Avakian (sister of George Avakian), and Mary's husband. Above him are George Avakian (married to Anahid Ajemian), and to his left, writer William Saroyan.

Taken at the home of the Ajemian's parents on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City.
Genres & Subjects
Group photographs--1950-1960
Composers
Musicians
Group portraits
Image Ownership
Anahid Ajemian
Photo Credits
Monroe Edelstein
Related Entities
Ajemian, Maro
Hovhaness, Alan, 1911-2000
Cage, John
Cunningham, Merce
Ajemian, Anahid
Avakian, George
Saroyan, William, 1908-1981
Masselos, William
Marcus, Carol Grace 1924-2003
Ajemian, Siroun Erganian
Edelstein, Babette
Edelstein, Monroe
Hovhaness, Serafina
Gregory, Elizabeth, 1917-2015
Avakian, Mary
Ajemian, Leon
Wigglesworth, Anne Parker
Wigglesworth, Frank, 1918-1996
Der Hagopian, Yenouk